Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THAT exasperating puzzle, the Tabular View, has lately become the means of a very profitable business venture. Leaving out of account the sums that Freshmen volunteer to pay for the gilded sheets, the amount received from advertisers must be considerable. Let no one, however, be so far tempted by this as to forget that he is bound in honesty to render a fair equivalent for their money to the business men of Boston and Cambridge. Those who prepared the Advertiser's Tabular View at the beginning of each half-year were able, no doubt, to influence the advertisers without deception...
...object to a man's making a spy-glass of his breast; but when the alternative is that it "undulate afloat on soundless depths," we beg leave to advise any man, in view of such a calamity, to spread his sails rather than fold them, especially if his purpose is to gain a rest "in being unbeyond" This remarkable piece is followed by a few remarks of Emerson's, then an article by O. W. Holmes, then an original essay, then part second of a serial entitled "Translations of the Bible; then in rapid succession we notice that John Brown...
...this view of the case is wrong, and Thackeray is really a cynic, then indeed he is a most inconsistent and tender-hearted one. No other writer is more quick to admire purity and innocence. No other writer has shown so great respect for and appreciation of true womanliness, or has so well described it. In almost every chapter he has written there are sentiments as far removed from cynicism as is the most earnest and modest charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly...
...antiquity was read for itself. The student could then realize the true beauties of the work in his hands; and a knowledge of construction would come of itself from familiarity with the pages of the model writers of old. One did not read Latin and Greek with the view of becoming a pedagogue. One read them with enthusiasm and pleasure, as they should be read, as a means of elegant culture; and the student of those days graduated with a lively admiration, if not a decided taste and love, for those grand old pages which had been opened...
...first place, a few words of a statistical nature. The Thayer Club was founded in 1865 in accordance with the terms of a gift of money from Nathaniel Thayer, Esq. The object held in view by that liberal gentleman was to afford to poor students the means of obtaining good, substantial board at cost price. The club was organized under the form of an independent body, but this independence is now merely nominal, as the Faculty have an absolute veto on any vote passed by the association. The number of students connected with the Club has gradually increased, until...